Oh yes oh yes... for similar effect, watch what happens whenever Star Trek has a 'back to the present day' special.
Of course you have to wonder how much of modern culture will actually survive, when the vast majority of it is digitised... literally nothing more than bits on a Harddisk. Just think how many popular fanfic websites and web-projects go poof every year, among other things. The British Government spent a lot of money in the 80's digitising the Domesday book in order to preserve it for the ages.... a few years later there was no computer left which could read the disks it was on.
I wonder if in 400 years time, we might be known only through a few magazine snippets and mountains of plastic landfill... if even that... the internet and everything on it having long since evolved to the point where the world as we know it today becomes a sort of Digital Dark Age. Nothing outside of a memorial is set in stone anymore.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?
Of course you have to wonder how much of modern culture will actually survive, when the vast majority of it is digitised... literally nothing more than bits on a Harddisk. Just think how many popular fanfic websites and web-projects go poof every year, among other things. The British Government spent a lot of money in the 80's digitising the Domesday book in order to preserve it for the ages.... a few years later there was no computer left which could read the disks it was on.
I wonder if in 400 years time, we might be known only through a few magazine snippets and mountains of plastic landfill... if even that... the internet and everything on it having long since evolved to the point where the world as we know it today becomes a sort of Digital Dark Age. Nothing outside of a memorial is set in stone anymore.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?